Constance Zimmer Quotes

I've been hurt quite a few times.

The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.

After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.

Of course I get hurt.

I have reason to be shy. I've been hurt plenty.

I saw people who were hostile; they had felt so much hurt that hostility was their only defense against being crushed again.

I started to build barriers between myself and others to protect myself.

You know, I think anybody who has been in relationships has access to heartbreak - I don't think we have to go far to find it, whether we inflicted the heartbreak or whether we were the recipient of it.

There's always going to be something said that hurts you.

I'm the kind of person who doesn't let anyone in easily.

I don't know how to be hurt.

It used to hurt me when people said I was hiding in Wales.

There is hurt that cannot be fixed by band aids or poetrybecause no matter how wide you stretch your fingers, your hands will always be too small to catch all the pain you want to heal. Believe me, I’ve tried.

We've all gone through some kind of betrayal, whether it's with a boyfriend or a friend or a family member. That's why this is so relatable to everybody because we all know what it feels like to feel that betrayal.

People think they know me, but they don't. Not really. Actually, I am one of the loneliest people on this earth. I cry sometimes, because it hurts. It does. To be honest, I guess you could say that it hurts to be me.

They can't hurt me. I'm not like the rest of you. There's no one left I love.

You must hurt, or be hurt.

Let him tell us he's never been hurt, but that's the definition of getting hurt.

Because i've suffered. Because many times in my life i have tried to love with all my heart, and my love has wound up being trampled or betrayed.

Mean people are really just sad people. They hurt others because they are hurting. Every person is born beautiful, and much of the ugliness in others was put inside of them by other hurting people.

We hurt each other, is the point. Hurt, annoy, embarrass, but move on. People, it just doesn't work that way. Your own feelings get so complicated that you forget the ways another human being can be vulnerable. You spend a lot of energy protecting yourself. All those layers and motivations and feelings. You get hurt, you stay hurt sometimes. The hurt affects your ability to go forward. And words. All the words between us. Words can be permanent. Certain ones are impossible to forgive.

Now, is it possible not to be hurt at all? Because the consequences of being hurt are the building of a wall around oneself, withdrawing in one's relationship with others in order not to be hurt more. In that there is fear and a gradual isolation. Now, we are asking: Is it possible not only to be free of past hurts but also never to be hurt again?

The primary nature of every human being is to be open to life and love. Being guarded, armoured, distrustful and enclosed is second nature in our culture. It is the means we adopt to protect ourselves against being hurt, but when such attitudes become characterological or structured in the personality, they constitute a more severe hurt and create a greater crippling than the one originally suffered.

I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.

I know from my own clinical work that when people are beaten and hurt, they numb out so that they can't feel anymore.